| ▲ | nayroclade 15 hours ago |
| I always found the "Amazon 4-Star" name funny. Presumably when it was first pitched internally it was called "Amazon 5-Star", then they realised that meant they basically couldn't sell anything, since nothing popular gets a full 5 stars. So they changed it to "4-Star", which just sounds awkward, and lacks the suggestion of top-quality that "5-Star" would. Instead, it's like the "Amazon Not-too-bad" store. I was amazed that they actually went ahead with it. |
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| ▲ | eithed 14 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| When did naming things have to reflect reality? ie it's "Burger King" and not "Bearable Burger" |
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| ▲ | PaulHoule 14 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | It was a pretty good burger until 2013 when they changed the machine they used to cook the burgers. Now it's worse than McD's and that's saying something. | | |
| ▲ | nebula8804 14 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Wait that explains so much! Do you know more about the change? I've been weirded out by the fact that their jr burger buns are now super shiny as if they are spraying something on them. I know this is processed food, but no burger bun should be able to reflect sunlight the way their burgers now do... | |
| ▲ | AdamN 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Yeah it used to really taste flame grilled. It's pretty low rent nowadays - to the point where I wouldn't go there even if desperate. |
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| ▲ | FireBeyond 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | My fiancee used to work at a place called "Decent Pizza". Their motto "Not the best but not the worst." | |
| ▲ | calvinmorrison 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | who is this appointed this beef monarch anyway? | | |
| ▲ | jandrese 13 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The Lady of the Fry Oil? | |
| ▲ | kid64 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Dairy Queen | | |
| ▲ | mcswell 12 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I lived in Quito Ecuador back in the late 70s/ early 80s. There was a hamburger place called "Burger Queen"--the name was in English, presumably to attract people who knew about Burger King. They had a sign that read "Casa del Whooper" (not Whopper). | | | |
| ▲ | Andrex 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I'm gonna be 90 and Burger King/Dairy Queen puns are still going to make me laugh. |
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| ▲ | divbzero 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| They should have left it as “Amazon 5-Star” with nearly 5-star products. |
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| ▲ | giraffe_lady 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Shoulda just bit the bullet and gone with "4.8-star." I'm sure they talked about it and yeah it's goofy and awkward but it would get the meaning across and maybe show a bit of a sense of humor and that's exactly why they never ever could. |
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| ▲ | paulddraper 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Yeah it’s kinda like a dollar store but instead of focusing on the upside (cost) it reminded you of the downside (quality). |
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| ▲ | adolph 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| "'Amazon Not-too-bad' store" sounds pretty reasonable. Maybe a too-clever work around for the 5-Star problem would be to call it "100-Star," which would be 4 in binary notation. Or they could call it "5th-Star" since 4 stars is the fifth number of stars b/c the range of starts is zero indexed. Ordinal : Cardinal
1 : 0
2 : 1
3 : 2
4 : 3
5 : 4
6 : 5
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| ▲ | polshaw 13 hours ago | parent [-] | | The range of stars is very deliberately NOT zero indexed, you cannot rate a product below 1. | | |
| ▲ | qingcharles 34 minutes ago | parent [-] | | It has been a constant source of irritation in my life that I could never rate the Spawn movie zero stars on IMDB. |
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| ▲ | boredtofears 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Also funny because there are many product categories on amazon where if its not above 4.5 its probably shit |
